I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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